a day of mourning and protest in tunisia the funeral of a slain opposition leader is marred by violence with protesters clashing with the police this comes against a backdrop of a general strike that has paralyzed the country. historic budget amendment for the e.u. which aims to cut brussels red tape it may now be undermined by bureaucracy itself as european parliament threatens to block the deal. and president obama's nominee to head the cia faces catcalls from anti-aids rhone protesters but get stephen lee an easy ride from lawmakers over his targeted assassinations program.

good evening we've got world news and analysis live for you from moscow headquarters i'm lucy cow foot of any watching r.t.e. . well internees are clashes between mourners and the police have marred the funeral of a secular opposition leader whose assassination has a two k. also in the streets and a crisis in the parliament now violence has erupted near the cemetery as demonstrators threw stones and set cars a blaze while pro police have responded with tear gas now adding to this turmoil the country has been paralyzed by a general strike. is following the developments in tunisia as you can see many people have gathered here today for the funeral so chokri belaid one of the most prominent opposition leaders who was killed on wednesday and seen standard situation here on the ground comings very tense and very valid tile and that is definitely strengthening that relative stability that we've seen here although in

two thousand and eleven revolution we speak more to people here in quite a small square but it's packed with people with lads all of them actually chanting from time to time and to government slogans many people we have been able to speak to here on the come here they say that the leader over the party. is personally responsible for this murder well these are very strong accusations actually but we've been hearing that from too many people says he was a symbol of dignity this is a political assassination and that means that the repression and violence is not over this is a crisis. this is a crisis people want change again slogans of revolution of democracy protection working class and poor people that didn't work we can't see it. what happens this is a sign. of what could happen in the county if we don't find very quickly some

concrete. solutions that we see here today and what we've seen here in the last two days in the. and she actually it's a day job it's a mirror situation what we've seen here that would be so good two years ago in the last two days following the assassination of chuck privilege there have been many protests not only in the capital tunis but strong the country and there have been many who lashes between police and opposition photos and we've heard of at least one police officer who was killed but definitely there have been much more injured people this is a very bad situation here in the country bad fears a growing that it may turn even more violent and it will go even further if there is no solution immediate solution this is why people are saying that they're preparing for the worst well earlier i spoke to author and activist for rosie manji

who had explained why the assassination of the opposition leader holds such dire consequences for tunisia. the importance of. shukri belayed. cannot be underestimated is assassination is a is a profound. effect on the tunis in population he has been an outspoken standing spokesperson for justice in this here he has been fear minutely critical of the government of the who he party. and in particular he has enormous credibility within the trade union movement as you can see there is a general strike in core and immediately upon his his assassination i think that we're entering a new phase in the revolution in iran in tunis here and you know could lead aleutians you never know what the outcome is is going to be and i think there are.

signs that this could easily. disintegrate into some kind of civil civil war hopefully that won't happen. well it's been hailed as a historic deal of reducing the spending for the first time ever what the e.u. leaders have struggled to agree upon now can still be undermined by the european parliament or leading factions have already said that the budget is simply not acceptable artists are still of reports from brussels. more than twenty four hours of negotiations of bickering. along the corridors what's next more fighting more negotiations and more bickering yes after a deal has been made here at the e.u. summit the next step is the european parliament they will have to approve this and we're already hearing reports that the leaders of the main political groups there don't accept the deal that was reached here and the president of the parliament

martin shultz last night at a statement he had been sounding very angry at the proposed cuts and now we're already seeing the cots that the twenty seven leaders will impose on the budget he said he's not going to put a signature on something he sees as excessive so if we saw countries leaders coming here protective of their national interest we're going to see political parties protective of their own industries or whatever they represent in parliament and that is going to be a long long time of negotiations it could probably take about three months to get any answer out of there and we're seeing it's already negative david cameron came here saying that he wanted to bring down the general amount of the budget and in fact he did he got the amount he wanted it's about nine hundred eight billion euros however what's interesting here is he's going to go back to the u.k. now just to explain that you can see contribution is in fact he was able to protect the rebate of the u.k. but let's not forget that the rebate the money that the u.k.

gets back to you is hinged on the contribution to agriculture now the agriculture subsidies has been cut down therefore the rebate will also go down and therefore the contribution would fact go up we're already hearing from the euro skeptics especially coming from his own party saying that role well done you're coming back here saying that it's a victory for the u.k. but in fact we're going to be paying more just at a time when he's going to be posing the question he says of the referendum whether or not they should even be a member of the european union the twenty seven if he is reelected in two if so whether or not this is a real victory for david cameron he will have to answer that when he gets back to the u.k. . well economist james medway says it is going to be a tough time for the budget deal as it goes to the european parliament. constitutionally they're well within their rights to reject the thing and send it back and have another go at writing this now whether they actually do that will probably depend on the fine print and the budgets are already raised to be politic

to said he would be able to support the steel and the heads of one of the major groups in the parliament the socialist group said there are likely to support it so it's going to be a rocky ride i think this budget over the next few months cameron's right talk about this being like a reduction in a credit card limits and of course you can have your credit card limit reduced and still spend carry on spending more money now that's almost certainly what's going to happen to britain over the next few years the amounts that britain is expected to pay into the main e.u. fund will increase as a result of increased payments to a new member countries so he's going to pretend that this will show how britain can still be a force in europe how we can push the rest of europe around this glosses over the fact of course that he would have got anywhere in this without the support of the angle of merkel in particular so he can you can try to push that line that you know he knows what he's doing to europe and that we don't need to go so far as to step out of the european union but i wouldn't see the more euro skeptic members of his own party being particularly impressed by any of this. well may now be breathing

a sigh of relief after reaching an agreement on the union's budget. which frustration is still high in spain where thousands have protested fresh government cuts and its crisis plagued education sector full coverage of that for you on our website on t.v. dot com. well president obama's choice to head the cia has faced a tough confirmation hearing at the u.s. senate but of course it wasn't the lawmakers who would put john brennan in the spotlight over his controversial drone program now the session itself was interrupted several times by protesters who had held up signs like stop cia murder

and other signs they were of course referring to the use of drones by the united states for targeted strikes against suspected terrorists now john brennan down defended the program which he helped developed as quote ethical and just saying that a strike is well carefully vetted however human rights groups claim that the program has in fact led to a large number of civilian deaths and so the lawmakers hold brennan accountable for his counterterrorism policies are to get out as you can explains what most people expected to hear was how does the u.s. government make decisions as to who should be on their kill list and mr brennan would certainly be the most appropriate person to ask because he is known to have been in charge of the kill list and he's known as the architect of the administration's targeted assassinations. who the drones are targeting was critical and one of the senators asked john brennan whether there should be at least some judicial oversight over those executions by drones and here's what he said none of

those actions or to determine past guilt for those actions that he took the decisions that are made or to take action so that we prevent future action to protect american lives so the rationale that john brennan gave for not going to court is that the administration is not in the business of punishing individuals but it's in the business of preventing attacks he basically says the u.s. government could execute people for what they haven't done yet you would expect a follow up questions from lawmakers as to how the administration determines the level of threat as these people constitute let's imagine an angry yemeni man who writes in his blog dad he hates america as you can see is wife died in a drone strike and he wants to take revenge is that enough to justify him being killed by a drone there are so many questions about how the administration decides to put someone on their kill list and yet there was not near enough grilling on the part of the senators to get specific answers prior to the hearing

a memo was released which the justice department handed over to congress and according to the memo the government can kill people overseas even without evidence that they are actively plotting against the u.s. the paper states that the u.s. would be able to kill a u.s. citizen or non-citizen overseas ways to go down quote an informed high level of social of the u.s. government determines the target is an imminent threat to them here for also suggest that such decisions would not be subject to judicial review and outlines a broad definition of what constitutes imminent threat everybody expected tough questions on drones but that did not happen john brennan got away with very broad answers like the program is saving lives and that you should take the administration's word for it. well drone warfare its consequences as well as the morality of it all are up for debate in cross talk in the next hour we'll hear how drone strikes may be breeding the very terror that authorities are seeking to eliminate. it's quite horrific in africa but it's getting worse i mean this is

drawn be a small i. close to mali so that you've got the west african i as well so it's stroking up so that we're going to draw on b.s. is all over africa i'm not sure what a surprise really why are we doing this well it's me dave davies and she's perfect the most effective recruitment tool for insurgents in the world david what do you think about that drones are an improvement on torture drones or an appointment to ground war so the arguments were being given and yet we didn't have a ground war and you haven't we might need one eventually if with the damage the drone strikes are doing but this is beat we're being told that this type of murder is better then all of their human rights abuses. when the draft bill in the u.k. aims to clear the way for private online messages to be monitored by the government and. for of course there are concerns that they propose measures are taking

national security a step too far. also for you third time lucky for georgia's president mikheil saakashvili as he almost failed to deliver his annual state of the nation speech this after parliament turns its back on him that and more stories for you after the break. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year of a diagnosis of. over sixty two percent of those species are diagnosed with this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about there were really good public health campaigns if people really focused on this problem you certainly should be able to have a lot less h.i.v. a lot less human suffering.

sigrid laboratory. was to build the world's most sophisticated robots which on the plea doesn't give a darn about anything mission to teach religion or why it should care about you and . this is why you should care only on the dog. who's the captain of hair in your washing our t.v. in the u.k. a document described by some as a snoopers charter will be given another push by the government this out for intelligence and security committee officials said that the proposal lacks detail and the bill of designed to help authorities track online activity of citizens and

to retrieve personal web data or to sarah furthur looks at how such measures could power up national security. the main area of concern surrounds this the draft communications data bill and proposals in it that critics say could see the public left wide open to having their facebook accounts or twitter e-mails read anything that they visit online the web sites that they gayety logs by the government now understandably those plans to prevent hugely controversial with critics labeling it the snoop is charter now perhaps more concerning is the latest report by the intelligence and security committee made like to see a nationwide surveillance regime implemented now the government say that they need to do this to catch criminals and stop terrorism but there's lots of the members of the public saying where are safeguards when it comes to what we do online will seek more about this i'm now joined by professor and sneakily to the director studies

security and intelligence studies at the university of akron thank you very much for joining us you're in support of the draft communications data below i heard you describe yourself at a recent talk stunk at the picnic if these keys and these proposals are so unpopular why are the government pushing them through all the time when government is pushing them through because the government realizes that they're needed some thirty million people use the internet to communicate with each other each day in the united kingdom people in this country fully accept that more than one hundred years. their telephone conversations are likely to be mine if they're seen as a national security risk if there is a suspicion that a particular person is engaging serious organized crime sex trafficking or terrorism the government can then institute pro as

a member of the public who photo my e-mails for well if you don't want your e-mails . your more engaged in any kind of illegal activity your e-mails won't be pro if you want if you want complete driver's seat don't write any letters to your friends don't speak to them on the telephone and don't send them photographs of yourself in jockeying that you very much for joining us to further and see if that has that is the solution maybe is the time for a big log of think a someone is actually watching r.t. london well jim kellogg from the open rights group told us that if the communications build is actually signed it could stretch the government's power way beyond its needs snoopers charters a bill that would allow the government to collect data about everybody on mining and data mining that data so it's not just about the guilty it's not just about

records being kept it's not just about serious people serious criminals who need to be tracked it's about the potential of anybody in law enforcement to get hold of any information about anybody just about anything that you do would be detectable through the information trails you need the draft is being discussed by the home office the home office we're told by a joint committee that they should consult everybody on the basis of detailed proposals failing to do that what they're actually doing is inviting groups specialist groups in and saying so what do you think where might we improve things that is not the kind of consultation we need we need the home office of published detailed proposals so that we can see whether they're in any way workable what the damage would be and have a proper serious debate about those proposals. well you can join the online discussion about the u.k.'s controversial communications bill on our website you can head over to our t.v.

dot com to answer this question cast your vote and what you think the surveillance of people's internet activities will actually lead to now for those of you who have already cast their ballots what does that have to break down the outcome of the results for you so far so as you can see on this pie chart that we have for you right here nearly forty percent of you right here in the blue think that scramblers and then corruption will actually become an ordinary thing now just over a quarter of you believe that people will reject the practice and fight for their rights seventeen percent of you over there in the orange say that this will result in people leaving social networks all together and a slightly smaller percentage believe that while nothing is going to change so get on the website cast your ballot. access.

scuffles have broken out between former political prisoners and supporters of president saakashvili in the georgian capital now the violence how to rob did as saakashvili was going to deliver his annual state of the nation speech and the president was forced to change the venue for the address several times this after the country's parliament had refused to provide a platform or even listen to the leader in a new sign potentially of his waning power hailed in the west as an exemplary democratic ruler saakashvili had lost popular support over his crackdown on the opposition as well as over claims of human rights abuses will artie's alexei or chef ski has more. georgia has performed miracles we moved from being a failed state will be one of the top business destinations in the world while it would be high to be academic freedom according to the world bank i'll be number one fighter with corruption even world wide and many people started to believe in the stations people started to believe them ocracy it was because it is georgia really

a beacon of democracy and freedom not from your viewpoint when he's universities rectory refused to build a prayer room he helped organize a ten thousand strong peaceful student rally but it ended with his arrest and sentence of four and a half yes behind bars no. guards could just walk into our cell and start beating us for no reason the even put twenty year old students in wheelchairs and prison one of the inmates went insane because they showed him footage of how his wife was being raped. georgie thought she'd be spending his time with murder isn't drug barons and stand he found himself among academics architects and righteous all jailed for having a different opinion to the country's leadership. works as an advisor to the minister of the penitentiary system and used to be classmates with saakashvili she believes the astonishing number of prisoners in georgia during his reign was to a large extent personally driven. which is what he had often been joked at in

school he directed his revenge against his former classmates when he became president most of them were either stripped of their businesses are put to prison in his presidency we've had twenty five thousand people in jail. shocking video of prisoner abuse in georgia in jails went viral and effectively diminished the president's party support by more than a half inch lost both the election and control over the country it's not yet known where the second city will face prosecution of that was a torture allegations for two hundred political prisoners a change of power a man with a chance to walk free because like us we will for many remain as georgia's president until october. he's already been transferred to the prime minister if you want to be has already declared a national political prison is what experts say very socialisation take several more years. in georgia. over to some other international news and brief right now. a suicide bomber has blown himself up near

a security checkpoint in the northern mali city of galle but the attacker himself was the only casualty this is the first known suicide bombings since french troops entered the country was northern half was ruled by islamist extremists friends now once u.n. peacekeepers to take over security as it prepares to end its mission there. a series of car bombs killed at least thirty six people in shiite areas of iraq on friday a sectarian and ethnic tensions intensify ahead of provincial elections in april now the bombings targeted an outdoor pet market in baghdad and a vegetable market in the hillah province south of the iraqi capital recent weeks have seen insurgents carrying out a list daily attacks on security forces and civilians in an attempt to undermine the shiite led government well the clock counting down to the sochi winter olympics is taking and work at the russian resort city is ramping up organizers say that

final touches are being made in preparation for one of the world's biggest and most prestigious sporting events argues andrew farmer is in sochi and reports on how the city has marked the start of the countdown. after six years of relentless construction i think she is entering the final home straight in terms of getting prepared for these games last night to mark the one year to go you can down there was a lavish ceremony here at the olympic park there were fireworks there's also a spectacular skating show that took place in the bolshoi ice time that was all very impressive. switched on across russia and if you are a fan take his have gone on sale now the cheapest one you can pick up is something like fifteen dollars and if you're rich or you fancy a bit of cash you can pick up a ticket to watch the opening ceremony for something like fifteen hundred dollars i have been here for the last few days and have been very impressed with what i've seen most of the sporting venues are now up and running and that is staggering considering most of them had to be built from scratch there was one area of concern

and that was the ski jumping center up in the mountains they are slightly behind and also over budget and that's still present in sac a senior member of the russian olympic committee yesterday but overall the message is very positive this is in the daily setting i mean i'm just made from the black sea here people were swimming in there just minutes ago i was fifteen degrees these will be the first olympics that will be held in the subtropical climate and if you're coming here to watch in sport i think you will thoroughly enjoy simply because it's so easy to get around the olympic park is extremely compact which means you can walk around all the venues there within about twenty minutes which feasibly means you could watch something not the ice hockey the killing and all the skating events and then if you wanted to see on the second day you could get on a train and within thirty minutes you'd be up in the mountains to watch the alpine events.

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live. twenty minutes past the hour you're watching business argue with me about a shiny asco welcome to the program the south stream pipeline will start pumping russia's gal's to europe no later than two thousand and fifteen that's according to god's promise chief alexei miller him met with president of the republic of serapis come a large go at it called friday the south stream pipeline will bring russia's gas to central and southern europe bypassing transit countries like ukraine it will cause

russia and its partners billions of dollars and spending that money might not make economic sense if gas prices in europe keep falling and twenty thirteen some economists even go as far as to say energy prices of past the point of return to historic highs thanks not only to the shale gas revolution but to other factors as well. a lot of the new gas which is going to come to market at the end of this decade is from actually not even from shale gas. from australia from conventional gas and canada conventional gas in east africa it's very much a supply revolution two very high prices and at the same time difficult to learn for oil in in the o.e.c.d. is now falling be falling for a number of years we believe that that process will accelerate. both. the car fleet become more efficient but also as gas takes over this is

a heavy troll school fuel and and consequently helps to to to to reduce or to mount you've said that russia now is much more of a petrol state as it has ever been so falling energy prices mean collapsing economy we're not at this stage talking about collapses in a couple prices interesting enough we will be talking about a gentle drift downward so for example the we believe that the medium term oil prices likely to be eight hundred thirty dollars as a ceiling bill. goes in level of which the russian economy is still there to operate is still very difficult to see here so. it is not it's not a disaster simply with guess we believe that the european gas price will probably settle at the. cost rolls which might be eleven dollars per b.t.u. which again would be a negative but it's not catastrophic are there any opportunities for russia in this

changing environment relatively attractive areas within russia even even in this time for example. those domestic growth companies in russia which are able to resist this downdraft affording. prices because they're in very low penetration sectors such as home building or infrastructural services they will continue to do extremely well actually in this environment. and let's now take a look at the markets to see where we ended the week on wall street which is still actively trading this hour equities are higher in fact almost one percent higher for the nasdaq shares of mcdonald's are jumping on better than expected results over in europe shares closed in the block on friday with miners and banks pushing the indices higher two main factors there the goose that the appetite for risk positive chinese trade data and the european union leaders agreeing on a budget cut the first one of those history i should mention here in russia investors didn't see a whole lot of reasons for optimism apparently the indices ended the week's last

trading session in the red roughly a third of a percent for both the r.t.s. and the my sex but the russian ruble managed to strengthen to both currencies on friday the euro was pretty much flock to the dollar russia's flagship airline araf lot this week fiercely criticized united aviation corporation for failing to produce a reliable regional jet air flight claims the company's latest mid-range passenger plane so who is super jet one hundred which was actually build it to revive russia's aviation sector is not up to scratch business artie's katie pope emacs plans. yes that's right the aircraft is used to roaring through the skies but now creating an uproar and that's because when it comes to aircraft reliability is paramount and that is exactly why ariff a lot of concern right now now in the first serious attempt to analyze the reliability of these models ten of them tested inadequate eight percent of air

floats fleet and sequoia accounted for forty percent of all of the aircraft failure is not a lot of these will mind up but when you're talking about people's lives hundreds if not intentionally thousands isn't really any such thing as minor now air force or that most of them were to do with the conditioning system others included the training facilities also landing gear as well as fire equipment but the most serious of all these problems was to do with a control system and that's where the alarm bells have been wrong to believe it is pretty much a floor design. so it is not a coherent. but it is a compilation of different. approaches often different system manufactured by different companies so i would say the first thing to do that would be in the reputation would be for. work with their drafting boards of

designing a new aircraft well sukhoi have said that all of the problems have been rectified and eliminated. during the first year and ten months of operation like with any new aircraft we have encountered some teething problems these have been localized in our being corrected in airplanes a fact that they were also being taken into account during the assembly of new aircraft when you consider that the jet has only been in the skies twenty alive and cost billions to produce the long gamut of it is still free lots up in the case you all say. all that brings you up to date on all the latest business the truth seeker with daniel bushell is coming up next right after a short break. you

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live. live. live live live live . secretary of state hillary clinton recently testified to congress in regards to the attack on the us consulate was killed an american ambassador in benghazi libya during the testimony couldn't rather calmly said you know things like that the revolutions that sprang up during the arab spring like in libya where the events in

bali have created instability and safe havens for terrorists and she made it clear that there is no doubt that the algerian terrorists had weapons from libya so the us secretary has basically admitted that the actions of the usa and nato have caused a mass instability that has allowed the seeds of terrorism to grow when the justification for most of the actions in the muslim world is to stop evil dictators who harbor terrorists or spread shouting democracy if libya would have been left alone algerian terrorists wouldn't be getting any weapons from it now this is like an exterminator accidently or maybe on purpose actually feeding the roaches in your basements that there are ten times more of them and then saying that he has to keep working because he's the only one who can get rid of the roaches people like hillary clinton who support funding brutal jihad it's rebel groups to overthrow governments to somehow bring about stability and democracy are either dismally stupid or consciously running

a very brutal con game but that's just my opinion. wealthy british. time. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's culture for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines cons a report on our government no longer represents the. people we're going to take such a. traditional

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when i was down your bushel terrorists the real toll gates of america's police state coming up obama's adventures in. your search engine selling you. and america private property. if you use a so a computer or walk outside the f.b.i. now considers you a terrorist suspect with no right to privacy sixty two percent of americans through drone strikes on foreigners can now get a taste of their own medicine but so will those a game strong with a lot of kids or nolte a court ruled obama can drone murder americans without trial even though its courts incompatible with the constitution when obama threw an alice in wonderland christmas but it's unclear if he's mocking the judge who said. the alice in wonderland nature of this is not lost on me

a catch twenty two that allows the executive branch of our government to provide claim as a lawful certain actions that seem on their face incompatible with our constitution while keeping the reasons for their conclusion a secret investigative jason leopold what's going on it's a khalif state mentality and if i were to say to you or anyone in the public that we are moving closer and closer toward a police state it would i would be dismissed as a conspiracy theorist as someone who is just paranoid but we are already there and as you mentioned we have the drone strikes we have we have the fact that drones and various police departments throughout the country are using drones for surveillance here several u.s. citizens have already been assassinated here blackhawks fly low on downtown miami strafing highways with machine gun fire in what with or to school

a practice room. government drones says the supremes court can even spy on your private property without a warrant you hold somebody is nude on your own property says jay stanley of america's civil liberties union you can no longer be sure nobody is watching you so the first citizen who pulls the trigger will be feted says this judge the first american patriot act shoots down one of these drones that comes too close to his children his backyard will be an american hero and it's not the first scandal were americans paid to spoil on themselves this for two on this video was pulled off troy it reveals this public spy system is already recording all conversations in places like michigan and soon san francisco intel is treats calls cope's when you make a louder than average noise and uses data mining like facial profiling of every pulse of boy so the promo was pulled but the program.